1. 231
   Cántico a San Leibowitz por Walter M. Miller Jr. (Jesse_wiedinmyer, vnovak, szarka)
2. 191
   El Nombre de la Rosa por Umberto Eco (the_awesome_opossum)

   the_awesome_opossum: The plot and writing are really similar: a dense and complex mystery/thriller set in a monastery. The Name of the Rose is historical fiction, not sci fi, but if you enjoyed the complicated and weighty plot, Name of the Rose would also be good… (más)

3. 140
   Snow crash por Neal Stephenson (Wova4)
4. 140
   Criptonomicón por Neal Stephenson (BriarE)
5. 80
   El lobo estepario por Hermann Hesse (bertilak)
6. 70
   El péndulo de Foucault por Umberto Eco (freddlerabbit)

   freddlerabbit: See the Name of the Rose recommendation above - I find Foucault's even more analogous here because Name of the Rose is a bit more plot-driven than the other two, where Foucault's and Anathem both have as much as 40% pure theory-disguised-as-dialogue.… (más)

7. 72
   Embassytown. La ciudad embajada por China Miéville (bertilak, g33kgrrl)

   bertilak: Miéville has written a philosophical science fiction novel that rocks and is not bloated: Stephenson please take note.

8. 50
   Excesion/ Excession por Iain M. Banks (elenchus)

   elenchus: Banks also introduces the "out of context" problem central to Anathem, but in a wildly different plot, and universe. Banks is less ontology and more space opera, but I found both books very entertaining, and both Stephenson and Banks sensitive to political questions raised by their respective plots.… (más)

9. 50
   The Clock of the Long Now por Stewart Brand (bertilak)
10. 30
    Anochecer por Isaac Asimov (Jesse_wiedinmyer)
11. 30
    Seveneves por Neal Stephenson (Mind_Booster_Noori)
12. 20
    Rakhat por Mary Doria Russell (quartzite)

    quartzite: Both books deal with key groups of people preparing to meet alien cultures with a bit of theology and philosophy thrown in.

13. 53
    El mundo de Sofía por Jostein Gaarder (SiSarah)
14. 65
    La ciudad y la ciudad por China Miéville (chmod007)

    chmod007: Both novels depict coexisting-but-dissociated societies — drastically foreign to the world we live in — but help us reflect on it.

15. 00
    Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution por R. F. Kuang (Cecrow)
16. 00
    The Just City por Jo Walton (Cecrow)
17. 00
    Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business por Neil Postman (themulhern)

    themulhern: Stephenson himself remarked that Anathem was a book about how people don't read books anymore. Moreover, there is a delightfully satirical sequence in which the characters are discusses serious things over food at a rest stop, and the narrator is repeatedly distracted by images on the speelies that are incoherent yet commanding. Later, the protagonist realizes that one of these images was relevant, and there is another bit of satire.… (más)

18. 00
    The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. por Neal Stephenson (Mind_Booster_Noori)
19. 00
    Relativity, space time and geometrodynamics por John Archibald Wheeler (bertilak)
20. 00
    Evolution's Shore por Ian McDonald (themulhern)

    themulhern: Another book in which the aliens appear with unknown motivations. Here, though, the context is a very contemporary Earth, and so the speculation is much more about the here and now. It spawned a series of which I have not read the rest.

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